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How can I contribute?

You can email your questions or other info to podcast@overclockers.com.au - either in a normal text email, or recorded as audio. That's right, you can use Sound Recorder (or similar) to record yourself asking a question, and we'll play it on the show and then respond.

Episode 25 (29th October, 2007)

Trouble sleeping? Episode 25 of the OCAU Podcast is now available for download, and is guaranteed to have you snoozing on the train to work in no time. In this episode Sciby, Wayne and I mumble soothingly about a range of topics including Facebook, Bioshock, Japan, seam carving and a huge waffly mountain of other pointless fluff. Do not listen while operating heavy machinery! This episode has shownotes too!

Episode 24 (9th August, 2007)

In this episode Sciby, drillbit and Agg chat about a range of topics including cheap stuff, HDD enclosures, Guitar Hero, Harry Potter, the music industry and a heap of other fluff. In fact it's a bit of a shambles to be honest, but hopefully fun. There's even a bit of bonus music at the end.

Episode 22 (22nd November, 2006)

This week we chat about YouTube+Google, new video cards and CPUs, rFactor, wireless stuff, Novell+Microsoft, Vista pricing etc. I sound like I'm falling asleep by the end so Trilby played around with some music stuff. Enjoy!

Episode 21 (25th October, 2006)

In this episode (recorded about a week ago) Sciby, Darkness and I chat about a range of topics including Google and YouTube, BF2142, Second Life, PC magic (and dwarves), our first net connections, folding on physics processors and a few other things. We also prove we know nothing about babies or economics.

Episode 19 (21st September, 2006)

This delayed episode is a "Special Edition" devoted entirely to interviewing Australian watercooling legend Cathar. We chat about a range of topics including the development of his highly successful waterblocks, and the state of watercooling technology and the industry in general.

Episode 20 (19th September, 2006)

In a departure from tradition, Episode 20 is being released before Episode 19, which should hopefully be available soon (and is devoted to an interview with Cathar). In Episode 20 I'm joined by Sciby and John Selby, and we chat about Dell & AMD, Intel's VT, alternative PC interfaces, the power consumption of portable devices, folding on GPUs and PS3s, land speed records and misc other stuff. We also have an "Apparently It's A Fact" from Scythe. I must however warn you that the words "paradigm", "coalesce" and "convergence" all make an appearance.

Episode 18 (27th August, 2006)

This is a fairly chatty episode covering mergers, Synergy2, Pluto, cyberpunk, PC & web birthdays, OCAU events and merchandise and misc other rants about stuff. We also chat with Darkness about some of the cool game demos that have come out recently. It's also worth noting that this episode was edited by Trilby of The Resonance, the Perth-based band that provided our theme music. Thanks Trilby!

We also have a blooper (some strong language) from the previous episode, as Andypoo wrestles with Apache.

Episode 16 (26th July, 2006)

Slightly late this week. Sciby was unfortunately transformed into a robot before this episode was recorded, so it's just Andypoo and Agg, with a bit from thetron in the middle. We have some thoughts on the AMD+ATI merger, Conroe availability, DS Lite brain training stuff, interstellar travel and a few other topics.

Episode 15 (17th July, 2006)

This week the focus is on Conroe, Intel's new CPU family. We have a half-hour interview with Chainbolt, the author of our Conroe review. Andypoo, Sciby and Agg also take time to answer a few questions, which results in some funny stories and recollections etc. This episode is also recorded in stereo, with slight stereo separation between hosts to help distinguish our voices.

Episode 14 (11th July, 2006)

Despite there being very little in the way of interesting news this week, Sciby, Andypoo and Agg still managed to waffle on for nearly an hour. I also experimented with putting music between topics in this episode, so it's ended up sounding like a podcast about nothing, recorded in a disco! I bet you're just itching to download this one. :)

Episode 10 (9th June, 2006)

This is a "special edition" episode, dedicated entirely to interviewing John Selby about a range of technology, copyright and internet law issues in Australia. John is a lecturer in the Division of Law at Macquarie University and a research associate at the Centre for Cyberspace Law & Policy at UNSW. We chatted with him about a range of technology, copyright and internet law issues in Australia. Note of course that this podcast is not intended as legal advice, merely general information and discussion.

Episode 9 (2nd June, 2006)

In this episode we chat about a few topics, including ThePirateBay's shutdown and re-emergence, more on Vista, CD identification, AMD's 4X4 and Dell partnership, some MMORPGs, some wierd emails, Sciby's blatant self-promotion and various other things. Also, solutions to all secret sounds to date, and a new secret sound!

Episode 8 (29th May, 2006)

In this episode we mostly focus on the "game" Second Life, but of course chat about a few other topics. As requested I've included about 10 mins on OCAU's first month of existence, and we also have a very nice prize from Arena PC to give away! You'll have to listen to the podcast to figure out how to win though. :) Overall sound quality is a lot better this time too.

Episode 7 (24th May, 2006)

No interview this week - instead, we've gone back to our earlier "geeks sitting around talking about stuff" mode. Sciby, Wolfy and I waffle on about a range of topics including CeBIT Sydney, Live Anywhere, Vista Requirements, Network Neutrality, Spore, Google Maps and various other things.

Episode 4 (1st May, 2006)

Episode 3 (24th April, 2006)

The MMORPG special! Agg, Sciby and special guest Wolfy discuss the myraid of issues, trivia and general nuts and bolts of MMORPG's (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), all while Sciby and Wolfy fool about in World of Warcraft at the same time.

Downloading/Subsciption Methods

Intro/Outro Music

The music from the intro and the outro is done by Perth band The Resonance.

Secret Sound

The secret sound is done by various forum members Further info available in this thread. If you can guess the right answer you can win amazing rare artifact or swag from Agg Cave. All have been hand selected by the one and only Agg himself

You too can also submit your secret sound all you need to do is Learn More. Remember it's important not to make it both too easy or difficult to guess